The London Transport Museum asked illustrators to draw the links between cycling in the capital, environment issues, health and fun, with some nice entries. Above is the winning entry by Rachel Lillie.
The Observer/Cape Graphic Short Story Prize is back – and has fast wangled its way in as one of the more interesting prizes every year. (The prize is celebrating its fourth birthday)
Fancy putting yourself in the running for £1000, a story in print and as much media coverage as you can shake a stick at? This is probably a good place to start then!
The judges will be some hard nuts to break this year with Audrey Niffenegger, David Hughes, Rachel Cooke, Dan Franklin, Paul Gravett and Suzanne Dean all casting their critical eyes over each entry.
You can check out the winners from previous years – here and here.
Deadline for entries is 6th October 2010. Not to be missed!
Heineken are running a competition to celebrate their new Your Heineken promotion.
Your Heineken Your City People from around the country are invited to take inspiration from the great cities of Ireland and express what the city means to them by designing their own, city inspired, Heineken bottle. The winning designer will then be given their very own part of Dublin, Cork or Galway, to recreate their design on a landmark building in one of the three major cities.
The winning design will be voted for by the public.
What is ‘Your Heineken’? ‘Your Heineken’ let’s beer fans personalise the very bottle that contains their favourite beer. Using the outline of the iconic green bottle as a template, Heineken enthusiasts can fill their bottle with designs, pictures and messages, creating their very own Heineken bottle, delivered straight to their door.
Log onto facebook.com/Heineken to design your own creation or browse the entries and vote for your favourite.
You’ve got a very important date! Prepare to fall down the rabbit hole as Barry’s Tea hosts 3 ultimate Mad Hatter tea parties and screenings of Disney’s Alice in Wonderland around the country in Dublin, Galway and Cork. Complete with brimming cups of Barry’s Tea and prizes for best hat, Wonderland fans will get an early glimpse of all the magic before the film hits cinemas on March 5th.
For more information check out:
www.aliceinwonderlandthemovie.ie,
Scamp.ie has 4 tickets to the Dublin screening in DUBLIN’s Cineworld – Thurs, March 4th to giveaway to the lucky readers who can fill in the blank in this sentence -
From Walt Disney Pictures and visionary director Tim Burton comes an epic 3D fantasy adventure ALICE IN _______, a magical and imaginative twist on one of the most beloved stories of all time.
Send answers to Here! or enter your answer and details in the comment section below by Friday February 26th at 12:00pm if you would like to be in with a chance to attend this special sneak preview.
Seats at the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party will be distributed at random and winners will be notified on Friday February 26th at 5:00pm.
www.facebook.com/barrystea,
www.barrystea.ie
Good Luck!
Mail Me Art is run by Darren Di Lieto, the founder and co-editor of the illustration news portal the Little Chimp Society. Mail Me Art culminated in the publication of the book Mail Me Art: Going Postal with the World’s Best Illustrators and Designers and an exhibition, held in London during 2009. The deadline for the second Mail Me Art Project is 31st January 2010. Submission guide here.
It’s nearly time for OFFSET 2009, with a host of leading creatives from Ireland and abroad coming together in Dublin for a week of celebration, debate and inspiration. OFFSET culminates in a 3 day conference taking place in Dublin’s Liberty Hall Theatre from Friday 6th – Sunday 8th November. Tickets for this amazing weekend sold out long ago, leaving a lot of disappointed people out there. BUT… as supporters and sponsors of OFFSET, the Illustrators Guild of Ireland have a little something up our sleeve just for YOU!
Thanks to all who participated. The winner has been contacted.
The Picture Works, who offer a kaleioscope of free eco-friendly postcards in venues nationwide, are celebrating 15 years in business by running their first annual art competition.
The top prize is €1,000 – and most enticingly – you get a postcard campaign devoted to your masterpiece and it will be available in 300 cafes, bars and restaurants throughout the country. Runners-up won’t be disappointed by prizes either. (more…)
The deadline to create and submit lovely, humorous and/or witty artworks for those cute little mobile canvases is Monday, 16th February, 2009. Submit your entries here.
Illustrator Craig Frazier has started an interesting little project calling on writers to add captions to his doodles, that will eventually end up as a book. Check out Drawords here.
You’ve still got until January 15th to enter The New Yorker’s 2009 Eustace Tilley contest. The iconic dandy appeared on the first issue of the magazine and now is your chance to put your own mark on a reinterpreted cover. Above are entries from the 2008 competition. Read all the details here.
